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IN SITU

Euro­pean plat­form for artis­tic cre­ation in pub­lic space

IN SITU is the sto­ry of a group of pro­gram­mers who are pas­sion­ate about new aes­thet­ics and the chal­lenges relat­ed to pub­lic spaces. Since 2003, they have been join­ing forces to col­lab­o­rate on a Euro­pean scale and sup­port artists work­ing out­side con­ven­tion­al venues. Today, it brings togeth­er more than 20 part­ners in Europe and beyond from more than 20 coun­tries : Aus­tria, Bel­gium, Burk­i­na Faso, Chile, Czech Repub­lic, Den­mark, France, Ger­many, Greece, Hun­gary, Italy, Koso­vo, The Nether­lands, Nor­way, Poland, Por­tu­gal, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, the Unit­ed King­dom and the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca.

 

Led by Lieux Publics, IN SITU imple­ments PLATFORM, its 8thcon­sec­u­tive project co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion’s Cre­ative Europe pro­gram.

 

As it has expand­ed, its exper­tise has been refined, and its activ­i­ties have unfold: iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of artists, lab­o­ra­to­ries and incu­ba­tors for transna­tion­al artis­tic projects, co-pro­duc­tions and dis­sem­i­na­tion of emerg­ing cre­ations, Euro­pean and inter­na­tion­al cross-res­i­den­cies, artis­tic explo­rations, pro­fes­sion­al sem­i­nars, a series of pod­casts, the devel­op­ment of the first MOOC ded­i­cat­ed to artis­tic cre­ation in the pub­lic space and the pro­duc­tion of a sec­ond MOOC on cul­tur­al rights in pub­lic spaces as part of the (UN)COMMON SPACES project (2020–2024).

 

IN SITU is com­mit­ted to diver­si­ty and inclu­sion as out­lined in the IN SITU diver­si­ty, equi­ty and inclu­sion state­ment.

 

 

PLATFORM, boost­ing emerg­ing artists’ inter­na­tion­al careers

IN SITU PLATFORM is a four-year pro­gramme run­ning from 2025 to 2028 that aims to iden­ti­fy and sup­port 200 emerg­ing artists. It pro­pos­es an inno­v­a­tive and effi­cient sup­port plat­form to devel­op artis­tic cre­ations at the Euro­pean lev­el in pub­lic spaces and non-con­ven­tion­al venues.

 

Three cycles are organ­ised through­out the four years of the project, each of them wel­com­ing and active­ly sup­port­ing around 65 artists select­ed through curat­ed calls for appli­ca­tions.

 

The pro­gramme includes online prepa­ra­tion and train­ing, peer-to-peer exchange with expe­ri­enced artists, work­shops to sup­port the artists in their con­crete project devel­op­ment, immer­sive expe­ri­ence tak­ing place with­in key fes­ti­vals and events ded­i­cat­ed to art in pub­lic space in Europe with net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties, tai­lor-made path of res­i­den­cies and dis­sem­i­na­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties. This sup­port will be round­ed off with a FOCUS, a ded­i­cat­ed event co-fund­ed by the net­work at one of the mem­bers’ fes­ti­vals, to show­case some of the select­ed artists.

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Diver­si­ty, equi­ty and inclu­sion state­ment

IN SITU is the Euro­pean plat­form for artis­tic cre­ation in pub­lic space. We pledge to make pub­lic space a place where all peo­ple can be heard, seen, respect­ed, and wel­come.

IN SITU is com­mit­ted to fos­ter­ing equi­ty, diver­si­ty, inclu­sion and acces­si­bil­i­ty for all of its stake­hold­ers, includ­ing artists and audi­ences, part­ners and coor­di­na­tion team mem­bers.

Our belief is that art in pub­lic spaces is made more acces­si­ble, more rel­e­vant, and more cre­ative by ampli­fy­ing the diver­si­ty of voic­es heard.

It is our respon­si­bil­i­ty to increase the diver­si­ty of voic­es present in our net­work and its activ­i­ties, to main­tain an aware­ness of who is not present, to iden­ti­fy bar­ri­ers , and ways to reduce them.

Our role is to work for change in our net­work, our sec­tor and soci­ety.

We acknowl­edge our pow­er and com­mit to use it, with recog­ni­tion of its lim­i­ta­tions, into mak­ing an active effort to include and sup­port those who are mar­gin­alised due to their back­ground, char­ac­ter­is­tics or pref­er­ences, or the inter­sec­tion of any of these.

This is informed by tak­ing steps to under­stand people’s needs and applies in every aspect of our activ­i­ties, includ­ing deci­sion-mak­ing, project-design, pro­gram­ming and com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

To do so, the net­work com­mits to ded­i­cate time and space to ask­ing ques­tions, lis­ten­ing to feed­back, hold­ing space for dis­com­fort, learn­ing from its mis­takes and explor­ing ways of improv­ing in coop­er­a­tion with those who are most impact­ed.

We acknowl­edge that we need to do more to live up to this com­mit­ment

We com­mit to take actions in ref­er­ence to this state­ment and to report on these actions on an annu­al basis.

This state­ment is co-writ­ten and endorsed by all IN SITU mem­bers.

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